Usually, it's women who suffer violence from men in Turkey. Now that a rape victim has reacted, killing and beheading her attacker, the debate in the country isn't about the murder she committed. It's about whether she can abort the child of her alleged rapist.

The Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war to Turkey are now more than 100,000. Ankara isn't pleased, but can't do a lot to stop the flow -- and is leaning hard on the West to help, with little result so far.

A certificate of debt dating back to 1562, has been found in a regional archive in Germany, and should it still be valid; the hamlet of Mittenwalde could become one of the richest towns in the world, according to the Reuters.

The potential move to merge with Standard Chartered could be a way for Barclays to thwart possible demands from an activist investor to return capital to shareholders, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

Congress on Tuesday rolled back some of the restraints imposed on banks after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, but big players like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, will not be breaking out the champagne.